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GitHub-powered alternative app store for discovering, installing, and updating Android apps from open-source releases. Features smart APK architecture detection, background update monitoring, install history with rollback, and a Trust Score system based on repository metrics. Version 1.1.3 adds home-screen widgets, redesigned widget styling, Play Store fallback links, and improved search caching.
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About this app
The GitHub-powered Android app store.
Discover, install, and update Android apps from GitHub releases — free, open-source, no ads, no tracking.
✨ Features
- 🔍 18+ curated categories — Privacy, Media, Games, Productivity, Dev Tools, and more - ⚡ Smart APK detection — auto-picks the right architecture for your device - 🛡 Trust Score system — 0–100 score based on stars, activity, releases, and forks - 🔔 Background update monitoring — get notified when installed apps have new releases - ⚖️ App comparison mode — compare two apps side-by-side - 📸 Screenshots from repos — auto-extracted from README - 🔄 Install history & rollback — keeps your last 3 versions - ⭐ GitHub starred repos sync — sync your stars into favourites - 🌙 Material 3 themes — dark, light, AMOLED, custom accents
🎉Interface language: Multi-language support
📄 License Copyright © 2026 Nikhil GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
🎯 Project author:github@NikhilKain
What's new
- ✨ Added
- ・Added new Search, Updates, and Tracked Apps home-screen widgets.
- ・Each widget is available in: ○Full-size layout ○Compact 2×1 layout
- ・Added widget previews and Add buttons under: ○Settings → Appearance → Home-screen widgets
- ・Added Open in Play Store on app pages for Play-installed apps when no downloadable build is available from other sources. ○Opens the Play Store app when available. ○Falls back to the browser if necessary.
- 🎨 Improved Widgets
- ・Redesigned widgets with: ○Rounded cards ○Subtle gradients ○Dedicated icons ○Clearer actions ○Coordinated light and dark themes
- ・Updated the existing App of the Day widget to match the new design system.
- ・Larger Updates and Tracked Apps widgets now display: ○App counts ○Individual app rows ○Installed-app artwork where ○available ○Improved empty states
- 📱 Installed App Tracking
- ・Installed, tracked, and recently installed app rows now prefer icons directly from apps installed on the device.
- ・App icons automatically refresh after package changes.
- ・Uninstalled apps are now removed correctly from: ○Installed-app views Saved update results Returning to Vyxel refreshes device state automatically. ○Late scan results are reconciled before being displayed.
- ・Temporary package-removal events during an app update no longer cause apps to appear uninstalled.
- ・Device-only app entries no longer trigger unnecessary GitHub release or screenshot requests.
- 🔍 Search Improvements
- ・Search now immediately cancels superseded requests and their active network calls.
- ・Results from older queries can no longer overwrite newer search results.
- ・Repeated GitHub searches now reuse a short-lived cache.
- ・Search requests pause while the reported GitHub search quota is exhausted.
- ・Older quota responses can no longer overwrite newer quota information.
- ・Search-term loading now runs off the main thread.
- ・Search-document caching now safely handles: ○Concurrent access ○Changed app metadata
- 🔄 Update Tracking Fixes
- ・Update offers now disappear when the installed version matches or exceeds the offered version.
- ・This also applies when an update is installed outside Vyxel.
- ・Prevented duplicate update scans.
- ・Scan progress now clears correctly after cancellation or failure.
- ・Widget taps now correctly open the relevant Search or Updates destination in both Classic and Expressive interfaces, including when Vyxel is already running.
- 🧹 Source Changes & Upgrade Cleanup
- ・Removed: ○Google Play source ○Patched source ○Play account/sign-in screens ○Unofficial Play API dependency
- ・Vyxel now includes 16 sources.
- ・Aurora OSS remains available for Aurora's own releases. Play/Aurora-installed packages now try: ①Aptoide ②Enabled open-source indexes
- ・TapTap installation hints now reference Aptoide only.
- ・During upgrade: ○Saved Play credentials are removed. ○Offline records belonging to retired sources are removed. ○Other offline catalogues are preserved. ○Existing source preferences are preserved. ○The shared HTTP cache is refreshed once.
- ・Old installation-history entries remain readable.
- ・Retired-source update records are cleaned up and excluded from future release checks.
- 🌐 Translations
- ・Added translations for the new store link and TapTap hints across all 15 supported translation languages.
- ✅ Android Developer Verification
- Vyxel Apps has completed Android developer verification with Google.
- ・Vyxel Apps is registered with Google. ・The release signing key is registered. ・The required verification asset is included in the APK.
- 🛠 Build Verification
- ・Version: 1.1.3 ・Version Code: 15 ・126 unit tests passed ・0 failures ・0 errors
- Verified:
- ・Release build ・Signing certificate ・Package and version metadata ・Android developer verification asset ・Removal of retired Aurora API classes
About this version
- Version
- 1.1.3 (15)
- Size
- 6.53 MB
- Requires Android
- 8.0
- Target SDK
- 26
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
- Downloads
- 160
- Updated
- Sep 30, 2026
- Package
- com.vythera.vyxelapps
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